Patrik Lennart Edsparr

Dr. Patrik L.
Edsparr is a Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Tor Investment Management (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Dr. Edsparr spent most of his professional career at JP Morgan Chase & Co., building and managing the Proprietary Positioning and Principal Investing Division.
At JP Morgan, his responsibilities included the distressed, mezzanine and special-situations investments across North America, Europe and Asia.
He was a long-serving member of the Executive Committee and the Investment Bank’s Management Committee.
In addition, he served on the Capital and Risk Committees.
Previous roles at JP Morgan include Co-head of North American Markets (2004–2006) and Global Co-head of Fixed Income (2006–2008).
In 2008, Dr. Edsparr joined Citadel Investment Group as the Global Head of Fixed Income and CEO of Citadel Europe.
From 2010 – 2011, he spent a year as Visiting Fellow at the Bank of England providing advice on a variety of market-structure and capital issues.
Dr. Edsparr holds a PhD in Financial Economics from MIT, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
He received a BA from Uppsala University, an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.